Pipe Bevel Cutting Machines: How
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Plasma and oxy-fuel cutting for plate, pipe and tube. Gantry widths to 5000 mm, lengths to 12000 mm, pipe to Ø2000 mm and 12 tons.
Configurations are ordered by capability. Select by the material and operation required, then confirm the cutting envelope on the machine page.
Structural work depends on how parts arrive at fit-up. Profiling and weld preparation in one programme means thick plate and long sections reach the welder square and prepared, with no grinding queue.
– Spans to 5000 x 12,000 mm
– Oxy-fuel and plasma on one bridge
– V, X, Y and K preps cut with the profile
Truck, tractor and earthmoving frames are built from thick plate, cut in volume and repeated exactly. Chassis cross-members, brackets and fixture plates are cut and marked in a single programme.
– Plasma for medium and thick plate
– Hole positions marked in the same cycle
– Table machines from 1500 x 3000 mm
Process piping is dominated by branch connections, and every saddle cut by hand leaves a fit-up gap. Offline 3D profiling takes the geometry from the model, so the saddle lands where the drawing says.
-Pipe 6 to 72 inch, wall 3 to 50 mm
-Saddles, holes and end cuts in one setup
-Bevels to 60 degrees on seven axes
Vessel work is inspected work. Shell plate, heads and nozzle openings all carry a prepared edge an inspector has to accept, traceable back to the programme that produced it.
-Nozzle openings bevelled in the same cycle
-3D machining of torispherical heads
-Workpiece position checked before the cut
Wagon and coach building is repetition work. The cost sits in how consistently the thousandth part matches the first, which is decided by the drive and the control, not the torch.
-Long-bed machines to 12,000 mm
-Dual drive, square across the full span
-Parts marked and labelled in-cycle
Hull blocks are large and awkward, and their parts are cut in volume with preparations that vary across a single plate. Material utilization matters as much as speed.
– Plate nested from DXF, remnants tracked
– Bevel angle varied within a single part
– Position retained through a power failure
Structural work depends on how parts arrive at fit-up. Profiling and weld preparation in one programme means thick plate and long sections reach the welder square and prepared, with no grinding queue.
– Spans to 5000 x 12,000 mm
– Oxy-fuel and plasma on one bridge
– V, X, Y and K preps cut with the profile
Truck, tractor and earthmoving frames are built from thick plate, cut in volume and repeated exactly. Chassis cross-members, brackets and fixture plates are cut and marked in a single programme.
– Plasma for medium and thick plate
– Hole positions marked in the same cycle
– Table machines from 1500 x 3000 mm
Process piping is dominated by branch connections, and every saddle cut by hand leaves a fit-up gap. Offline 3D profiling takes the geometry from the model, so the saddle lands where the drawing says.
-Pipe 6 to 72 inch, wall 3 to 50 mm
-Saddles, holes and end cuts in one setup
-Bevels to 60 degrees on seven axes
Vessel work is inspected work. Shell plate, heads and nozzle openings all carry a prepared edge an inspector has to accept, traceable back to the programme that produced it.
-Nozzle openings bevelled in the same cycle
-3D machining of torispherical heads
-Workpiece position checked before the cut
Wagon and coach building is repetition work. The cost sits in how consistently the thousandth part matches the first, which is decided by the drive and the control, not the torch.
-Long-bed machines to 12,000 mm
-Dual drive, square across the full span
-Parts marked and labelled in-cycle
Hull blocks are large and awkward, and their parts are cut in volume with preparations that vary across a single plate. Material utilization matters as much as speed.
– Plate nested from DXF, remnants tracked
– Bevel angle varied within a single part
– Position retained through a power failure
Every Drupe project starts with your part and your problem, gets engineered to your floor and cycle time, then commissioned on site and supported for the life of the machine. Tell us what you need to build.
(TBD) The answer depends on the process and the power source rather than on the machine. Plasma capacity is set by the rating of the Hypertherm or Kjellberg source fitted, and oxy-fuel capacity by the nozzle and gas selection. Both torches are available on the same bridge, which is why most shops specify one gas and one plasma station as standard and run each at the end of the range it suits.
Send us the thickest and thinnest plate in your mix and we will specify the process and the source against it.
Yes. The PLUBE Series is a double-drive gantry working a plate table and a chuck in the same installation, with a movable idler for long sections. Chuck capacity is Ø250 to 2000 mm.
It suits shops where floor space is the constraint and neither plate nor pipe volume alone justifies a dedicated machine. The trade-off is scheduling: the bridge serves one station at a time, so a shop running both at high volume is better served by two machines.
Bevelling units can be fitted to either station.
On pipe and tube, up to 60 degrees, on a seven-axis servo machine. End cuts, saddle cuts at 45 and 90 degrees and branch intersections are all produced from the same setup.
On plate, the control supports bevel units of differing kinematics, including oxy-fuel bevelling units with lateral adjustment, and will produce V, X, Y and K preparations within the same programme as the profile. It also handles full 3D machining on profiled material such as rectangular section, H-beam and torispherical heads.
AlmaCAM, Lantek, SigmaNest and TurboNest are all supported, specified at order against what your drawing office already uses.
For pipe and tube, AlmaCAM provide offline 3D profiling: the CAM module produces the cutting contour from a few parameters entered into a preset mask, with dimensioned contours in 3D. For plate, the nesting software imports geometry in several formats, nests contours automatically and manages sheet remnant.
The control itself handles automatic detection and correction of workpiece position, measurement of remnant contours, and workpiece identification by bar code, matrix code or OCR.
Seven to eight weeks ex-works for a standard configuration.
That covers the standard cutting widths and lengths with one gas and one plasma station. What extends it is non-standard spans, additional torch stations, bevelling units, and plasma power sources on import lead time, which sit outside our control.
Installation, commissioning and operator training on site follow delivery. Tell us your required date at enquiry stage and we will confirm against current load before quoting.
